A very interesting report that raises more questions than answers about global consulting firms and the industry they represent. Here are a couple of questions that I have just as an example and get the conversation going;
- Could one of the reasons they are so popular particularly with their appeal to autocratic regimes is that they are used as a mechanism to sideline local experts/public servants and ensuring no viable political debate/oversight over issues considered by the “state” as matters of “sovereignty” that no one but a select few are allowed to discuss/manage?
- Wouldn’t it be nice – for a change – for politicians of states that do practice some form/level of democracy like the senator shown in the clip to begin examining/addressing corruption from within that has infected the entire political ecosystem whether in relates to suspect funding/kickbacks or the ever expanding lobbying industry, the unelected/unaccountable power brokers & some of the called NGO’s that have been planted to undermine democratic values that so many have sacrificed their lives to protect and which in many cases represent straight forward foreign meddling in internal affairs.
It seems to me that tactics related to focusing public attention on things like migration as a phenomenon rather than a symptom of policy failures (particularly foreign but also domestic) as well as the perceived threat to sovereignty by some from organisations defending human rights like the European Court of Human Rights is nothing more than convenient diversions/smoke screens to protect/apply sloppy visions/policies and keep the accountable completely unaccountable.
In a nutshell we need a multi-pronged approach in dealing with corruption both in the private sector as well as in governance model otherwise each will continue to feed off the other.
Is that likely to happen? mmmmmmmm……can I pass on that one please?? Instead, what do you think?
Just a “looooooong” thought!